A wildly funny, hugely entertaining and in part tragic memoir of an accidental life spent in the fast lane (an E-Type Jaguar in fact) with everyone who was anyone in the 1960s and 70s.
PG Wodehouse wrote that "the three essentials for an autobiography are that its compiler shall have had an eccentric father, a miserable misunderstood childhood and a hell of a time at his public school - and I had none of these advantages".
Jeremy Scott had them all and then went on to:
- have an Evelyn Waughesque youth;
- poison a battalion of the British Army (deliberately);
- try to work as a gigolo (his only client was a Guggenheim);
- get a British Prime Minister high on drugs;
- tangle with Lord Lucan;
- have Paul Newman's daughter fall in love with him;
- and live with Peter Mayle, his best friend, in Provence.
